re: What are the hardest professions for interviews? And easiest?

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Investment banking can be somewhat chill or very painful depending on the interviewers.

Two biggest variables are do they like your pedigree and how their day is going

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They definitely didn't love my pedigree (state school undergrad and state school MBA), but they liked my job experience, personality, and I have great references/network. They all pushed me really hard trying to test my intelligence, I'm assuming because of my "average" academic pedigree. They assumed I was less-than when it came to intelligence. I handled it I'd say ok, but not great. Ball busters. One even asked "why that business school?" in a douchey tone and my response was "I had a pregnant wife and full time job at the time and didn't want to take on too much debt." and he scoffed.

I had one woman apologize after and she was one of the toughest people. She said she does it to everyone and I did just fine, but man, in that room, I wanted to tell her to lay the frick off